{"product_id":"9781250052889","title":"Ever After : Diana and the Life She Led","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEver After\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Anne Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the stuff of fairy tales,\" said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived in a glass coach for her wedding to Prince Charles.  But everyone knows how that fairy tale ended. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon intensive research and interviews, acclaimed biographer Anne Edwards, well-known for her revelatory and incisive books on members of Britain's royal family, here uncovers new details of Diana's life and her search for love; of her family background; and of a betrayal, historic in its outcome. What the public did not know at the time of her storybook wedding was the true story of Diana's troubled childhood-of the cold, autocratic grandfather who disdained her father, who was himself an abusive husband obsessed with having a son to inherit the Spencer wealth and title.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Diana married Prince Charles, she joined the equally troubled House of Windsor, and was caught up in a plot Shakespearean in its deception and eventual tragic ending. Anne Edwards paints a vivid portrait of a woman desperate in her marriage, fearful of her life, who became devious-and often brilliant-in the moves she played in a treacherous royal chess game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in her superb biographies of other royal and celebrated women, Anne Edwards's\u003ci\u003e Ever After\u003c\/i\u003e transcends the one-sided views of Diana in a work that must be called definitive. At long last, and with all of the insight and narrative drama that have marked her previous bestsellers, Edwards brings us the first full-scale, authoritative portrait of a more intelligent, more resourceful, and sometimes more ruthless woman than we have seen before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Diana's many fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A first-class piece of research and reconstruction graced by a first-class writing talent, with a startling royal family scandal buried at the heart of the story.” —\u003ci\u003eBarbara Tuchman on Anne Edwards' Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intensely absorbing” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The queen of biography outflashes the paparazzi in the life of the late Prince of Wales.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Diana's fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] fascinating book...Anne Edwards has provided a biography worthy of her reputation, one that...illuminates its subject with new material and fresh thinking.” —\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250052889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40656478437582,"sku":"9781250052889","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250052889","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}